Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,725 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Pinhook, Missouri (1927-2011)
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Sonia Sanchez (1934- )
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Eva Beatrice Dykes (1893-1986)
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Will Mercer Cook (1903-1987)

Explore Global African History

Child Soldiers, First Sudanese Civil War
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First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
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Rokhaya Diallo (1978- )
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Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
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(1973) Desmond Tutu, “God-given Dignity and the Quest for Liberation”

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013
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Confounded: The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins
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“Mad Men” in Black: African Americans in the Twentieth Century U.S. Advertising Industry
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Dr. Cornelius Golightly (1917-1976): The Life of an Academic and Public Intellectual

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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11/26/2021 – Executive Director – Seattle, Washington